I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baby is due (= is expected to be born )
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When is your baby due?
due caution formal (= the carefulness that is necessary )
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An over-confident driver may overtake without due caution.
due date
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Fewer than five percent of women have their babies on their due date.
due in part to (= partly because of )
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Attendance at the meeting was small, due in part to the absence of teachers.
due largely to
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The restaurant’s success was due largely to its new manager.
due process
due to circumstances beyond sb’s control
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Occasionally flights are cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.
due to
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The court of inquiry ruled that the crash was due to pilot error.
due/proper consideration (= the necessary and suitable consideration )
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A lot of building took place without due consideration for the effect it would have on the area.
due/proper regard
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The aim is to get the job done as cheaply as possible, with due regard to high standards.
partly due to
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The company’s problems are partly due to bad management.
proper/due respect (= suitable )
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‘I want proper respect,’ said Mother.
the due date (= the date by which something is due to happen )
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Payment must be made by the due date.
the rent is due (= it must be paid at a particular time )
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The rent is due at the beginning of the week.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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He is also due in Orkney this morning to hear evidence from concerned councillors and officials as part of his inquiry.
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It is also due to the fact that t ere are human intentions and abilities involved.
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Ayr, where racing is also due to take place on those two days are expected to make a decision today.
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She was also due to wear a £20,000 necklace-a present from Brad.
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The pressure of the gas is also due to the random motion of molecules.
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And Cheshire coroner John Hibbert is also due to open an inquest today.
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Thomas, who was also due to be sentenced yesterday, jumped bail last October.
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Municipal and communal elections also due on May 6 would still be held on that date.
largely
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The remainder were largely due to sewage, industrial pollution or oil spillages.
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That was largely due to the centralized organization mandated for all Air Force wings-and its damaging results.
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Global warming is largely due to the loading of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.
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In my view, this is largely due to the fact that he saw purpose very much in terms of particular design.
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Officials said the increase was largely due to extra holidays abroad encouraged by the favourable exchange rate of sterling.
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Thus, present-day surface relief is largely due to movements that occurred during and since the Tertiary Period.
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The improved forecast is largely due to lower projected costs for Medicare and Medicaid and welfare reform.
partly
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This is partly due to parents not placing high value on a daughter's education.
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Yet the Warriors won Sunday night, partly due to the efforts of two of the only three forwards they had.
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The turnaround also was partly due to sharp cost-cutting to offset the effects of failed new products.
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I am sorry about the late arrival of our response which is partly due the time involved in consulting member organisations.
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Bush's shaky mandate was partly due to the closeness of the election vote and the legal wrangling afterwards.
■ NOUN
back
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He's due back home at the end of the month, and will be totally involved on the Grand Prix circuit.
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This was the day, his secretary had told her, that Alexander was due back .
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Diana was due back in Britain early today while Charles continued his Far East tour.
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He's due back next week.
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She glanced at her watch, realising she didn't know when Dana and Garry were due back .
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She's not been home since, though she is due back soon.
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On the day he was due back I had lunch in the college dining hall with two friends from my year.
care
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He's already been fined 250 pounds for driving without due care and attention.
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The armed forces will take due care to avoid injury to civilians or their property. 37.
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Without their present powers even more of us would drive without due care and attention and the road casualty figures would soar.
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Even general relativity can, if due care is exercised, be subsumed into the Hamiltonian framework.
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He was found guilty of driving without due care and attention.
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Then she undressed with due care for her dress, unbelievably crisp after its night of stress.
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The court held that this should not have happened if due care had been used and the doctrine was applied.
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The plaintiff sued the defendants for breach of contract to exercise due care in giving him financial advice.
consideration
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The case was given due consideration , but in the end the plea made by his son Sergo was rejected.
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After due consideration she decided to go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I question whether the inspectorate is giving it due consideration .
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All bids, from whatever source, will be given due consideration .
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However I've been told there is no law of trespass as long as there is due consideration to private property.
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They should be taken seriously and be given due consideration .
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At the same time due consideration must always be given to the visual effect of the grain markings.
course
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In due course the main gallery will be refurbished and modernised to provide an important contribution to the cultural amenities of Bristol.
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In due course , these accounts found their way into print.
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All the information obtained is being collated and will be published in the Journal in due course .
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In due course Agnes forgot her first impulse, yet was moving inexorably on an almost preordained path.
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The Social Secretary reported on the winter programme - details of each event from him in due course .
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I look forward, therefore, to receiving your cheque for £1300 in due course .
diligence
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Practice varies as to whether the investor should disclose the due diligence report to the vendor.
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Presumably the Democratic National Committee checked the guest list with due diligence as to foreign corporate connections.
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Terms of reference for due diligence will naturally be a matter for yourselves and the investigating accountants to consider and agree.
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Indemnities for specific items already identified by the key features review and any further items discovered at due diligence .
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I think the answer is, after due diligence , we will be looking at expansion.
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They will of course be subject to a number of conditions such as inter alia a given level of profits and due diligence .
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And predators may be hesitating longer than i the past, over due diligence studies.
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Following due diligence the purchaser may try to seek price reductions to cover issues which their accountant's have identified.
process
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Such total contempt for due process of law demands serious sanctions.
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Tenured teachers have a property interest in continued employment and therefore are always entitled to due process protections prior to dismissal.
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Anger at what has been perpetrated and an insistence on due process are the essential combination in dealing with war crimes.
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But that liberty is not guaranteed absolutely against deprivation, only against deprivation without due process of law.
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An outrageous violation of due process required even more severe sanction.
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Neither Till nor Parker benefited from that due process thing.
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Other courts have found due process violations because the school board was not sitting as an impartial hearing body.
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But, as this Court has recognized, discrimination may be so unjustifiable as to be violative of due process .
regard
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The owner of land must have due regard for others who occupy adjoining property.
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This can lead to duties being allocated without due regard for the needs of patients.
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Failure to take due regard of this obligation places your patients at risk and may jeopardise your right to practise.
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Thus good planning must have due regard for economic realities.
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I have always been led to believe that we must pay due regard to a Bill's title.
respect
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The Home Office was willingly cooperating with other authorities to ensure the events passed off peacefully and with due respect .
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With all due respect to February, it can be one of the most mundane months of the sports year.
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The headteacher exercises the delegated authority with care and due respect for both the power and responsibility it entails.
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With due respect to our father, a very nice man, Mum possessed all the charisma.
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Yet, with all due respect , are there not too many central bankers stalking the globe?
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Dad, with all due respect , was not exactly the most suitable husband.
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Even so, the All Blacks, who include seven capped players, will give today's opponents due respect .
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Apparently they had not approached with due respect to the spirits of the Hills.
time
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My valet, Purvis, will find out which in due time .
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Ah yes, in due time .
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In due time , I returned to the country about the city of Geneva.
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In due time such a man came to the town.
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I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited, but no corporal appeared.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(give) credit where credit is due
be past due
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Their rent is three months past due.
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To truly justify the praise he survives on, Hartley is past due a crack at the mainstream.
with (the greatest) respect/with (all) due respect
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I was assured that any money due me would be sent immediately.
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Million dollar interest payments will be due in two years.
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She should be given the respect due a great educator.
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The computer printout shows the name and address of the buyer, the quantity ordered and the amount due .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If he is competent, he knows the law, knows what he must do, and what is due him.
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In due course, it was time.
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On 10 October due to strong wind, four bamboos dropped off lowest layer of raft.
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Some 250 schools operate in 21 states with 100 more schools due to get under way in the coming year, Clinton said.
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The hearing was due to begin at Quezon City regional court on Dec. 9.
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Undoubtedly, due to measures introduced in the late 1980s, it is much safer than before.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
feudal
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Similar conservatism is reflected in the treatment of revenue from feudal dues .
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On his death there were then no freehold estates to pass and therefore no liability to feudal dues .
■ VERB
pay
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However, I state again that enforcement procedures offer plenty of opportunities for some one to pay their dues and so avoid imprisonment.
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At that time, enough members paid their dues voluntarily to keep services going.
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We're divorced now and he pays his dues , but won't have anything to do with me or our son.
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But it is important that you pay your dues .
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They had a leadership, and members who paid dues and were organized in local groups.
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Singers pay dues of about $ 10 per month and provide their own concert attire.
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Given that Washington has for years refused to pay its dues in full, this discrepancy has caused resentment.
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She paid her dues playing in clubs in the West Coast and New York.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first I thought they were upset about the dues, which had been doubled.
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Most of the income comes from membership dues and from sales.
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Surely, if she was the caring person she makes out, she would insist on paying her dues.
III. adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beehive, another sulfide edifice, is a five-minute submersible ride due west of Moose.